Sales in my area have been normal. In the larger cities nearby, sales are up, but not hugely so. I expect a definite upsurge after the election if one candidate wins. I suggest buying your large capacity magazines and ammunition now.

Try this link www.tinyurl.com/5gznwl

The following is from that link, which the transition team took down after experiencing the response to it. I disagree with the incoming administration regarding their policy towards guns. Their intended actions will do nothing to reduce crime, and will in fact increase crime.
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Crime and Law Enforcement
Address Gun Violence in Cities: As president, Barack Obama would repeal the Tiahrt Amendment, which restricts the ability of local law enforcement to access important gun trace information, and give police officers across the nation the tools they need to solve gun crimes and fight the illegal arms trade. Obama and Biden also favor commonsense measures that respect the Second Amendment rights of gun owners, while keeping guns away from children and from criminals who shouldn't have them. They support closing the gun show loophole and making guns in this country childproof. They also support making the expired Assault Weapons Ban permanent, as such weapons belong on foreign battlefields and not on our streets.

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What a bunch of hogwash.

Tiahrt Amendment: For years cities suing the gun industry and anti-gun organizations have sought access to confidential law enforcement data on firearms traces. Both the BATFE and the Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) oppose the release of trace data. In fact, the FOP released the following facts regarding the "Tiahrt Amendment"
- Firearms trace data is "law enforcement sensitive" and is collected by ATF specifically to assist in criminal investigations.
- The prohibitions on the disclosure of firearms trace data has been part of every ATF appropriations bill since 2003.
- There is nothing in the law, in regulation, or in ATF's internal procedures which would prohibit disclosure of firearms trace data to a law enforcement agency or prosecutor which certifies that the data will be used to further a criminal investigation or prosecution.
-- EXAMPLE: The firearms used by Seung-Hui Cho, who massacred more than thirty people at Virginia Tech in April, were trace by local law enforcement with the help of ATF within twenty-four hours after the weapons (which had the serial numbers filed off) were recoverd from the crime scene.
- Once a law enforcement agency or prosecutor has received this data, they are free to share it with whomever they wish.
- The law does not prohibit the use of ATF data as testimony or evidence in third-party civil actions.

Commonsense(?) measures...keeping guns away from children and criminals who shouldn't have them. My son learned as a child that guns were not toys, and how to handle weapons responsibly. That meant not touching them without proper supervision. Felons and other criminals are already barred from having guns. In Great Britain, criminals don't seem to have any problems getting guns, despite a comprehensive ban on almost all firearms.

Gun Show "Loophole": This loophole doesn't really exist. Firearms dealers have to complete background checks at gunshows. This is just a ploy to make it more difficult for a person to sell their own weapon to someone else. They want to be able to track weapons in a national database. Easier to go get once a ban is enacted.

Permanent Assault Weapons Ban: Since the last one lapsed, I haven't seen much in the way of "assualt weapons" being used in crimes. Isolated incidents perhaps, but not the "blood flowing in the streets" promised when the ban lapsed. The big gun battles took place and take place, only in the movies and on TV.